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Rubygems and bundler

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A pull request for this has already been merged.

  • #358 by @kateinoigakukun — merged

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby, wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start with the .wasm package and the gem-loading question described in the issue, comparing ordinary Ruby gems with gems that include C extensions. The work is complete when a supported approach, compilation requirements, and known limitations are clearly documented or the capability is implemented and demonstrated.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Hello again - I had some success running Ruby code in an online page,
as you can see on ://ruby.assembled.app.

This is good progress, and I'm now curious if there is an approach
for requiring ruby gem libraries inside the .wasm package,
so my code can use helpers such as 1.second and "hello".titlecase,
among others.

I recognize some libraries including C extensions, such as Nokogiri,
are unlikely to be runnable inside .wasm unless specially compiled.
For non-C gems, I'm curious if there is a non-compilation approach,
though if compiling a new .wasm binary is necessary, I'd be glad for directions.

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
875
Forks
68
Avg merge
9d 5h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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